Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 181, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1913 — SOME NERVY PLAYERS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SOME NERVY PLAYERS

Bresnahan Praises Men Who Can Deliver When Needed. Substitute Catcher for Chicago Cubs Praises Frank Schulte, Outfielder, and Heine Zimmerman, Slugging Third Baseman. In baseball there are two kinds of nerve, according to Roger Bresnahan, substitute Cub catcher. One is possessed by the type of player who bullies men on the field, has a weak heart when he is asked to go to the plate in the ninth itinlng wi«.L a man on third and drive home the run that will win the game. The Other is the player who refrains from pugilistic tactics, but has a heart of steel, takes a viselike grip on the bat and grits his teeth when the responsibility of scoring a run is put up to him. ~ Bresnahan declares the first is the easiest to beat in a game and the second is the fellow who makes competition keen all the time. Bob Beschpr, left fielder of the Cincinnati team, struck Bresnahan last year in the jaw, after a game of ball, because the .fielder struck out in a pinch when a long fly or a single meant a victory. It was while discussing this episode that Bresnahan defined the two kinds of nerve In baseball. "There are two kinds of nerve in this game,” said Bresnahan, “and I profess to have only one. I’ll admit Bescher took a solid punch at me. I stood for it. There may be a lot of fellowsl playing ball today who can trim me off the field, but when it comes to matching brains and nerve during a game I think I can hold my own with any of them. "Bescher was up in the ninth inning in a pinch, when just a little single would have given the Reds the game. He was aware that it was up to him to rap out the hit that would turn the tide. But he was as nervous as a cat. I joshed him about it and he took it seriously. That was how the argument started. That was exactly what I was looking for. because it won the game for me. He struck out in the pinch and that was what made him angry. “Frank Schulte Is about the best example of the man with the nerve in a pinch I know of in the league today.

You never see Frank argue or dispute with any one, nor you never heard of his having a battle on the street. But you have seen him go up to the plate with runners on the bases in the ninth inning, smash out a single or extra base hit off the best pitchers l/i the league and win the game. He is the type of man to have on a team. “Heine Zimmerman appears to be extremely boisterous and rough, but he is a corking good man in a pinch because he is stubborn. He is too arrogant to have it said ths: he lost his nerve, and it is just that bit of pride that makes him so great a player.”

Roger Bresnahan.